This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...sincerity to bring forward a few works of art which would not be more or less basely stamped with the hall mark of their period. Will that grandeur without pathos, that grace without coquetry, that force and charm of the spirit which distinguish our great masters return, without any reaction, on the basis 01 the ideas we have accumulated up till to-day? In this epoch of technique, inventions, and commerce, is such a condition of art possible as, standing out far beyond its time, would still--like everything great--also be a child of it? This question, also, must be left to the future. We may, however, in the meantime gain the certain conviction that true progress does not come from without, but from within. If the artistic creation is merely speculative, and not impulsive, it may startle, but never warm us, nor will it ever be able to obtain immortality. Whoever agrees with me in what I have said, will join me in exhorting thus all young composers whose character can yet be moulded: --Think and live in greatness as our great masters did: then your production will be true, and as it comes from your soul, so will it be good. If you cannot do this, it is of no use to accumulate Ossa on Pel ion; to write for a thousand trombones and two hundred thousand kettle drums: only a frightful noise will result. Brilliant skill alone is not sufficient. Simplicity, frank and robust sincerity, that is what we need. Write bravely what you feel in your soul, and express what should be given forth. Then it will be a likeness of yourself, a manifestation of your nature, and in every case complete and good. Have also the courage to remain yourself, even if misunderstood, and pulled to pieces. But do not think it is necessary to produce a work like the Ninth Symphony, or the Tetr..

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